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“Ghosts and legends swirl in an affecting family memoir . . . A captivating debut . . . [Jones'] confidential asides to readers create a genuine sense of intimacy. Lyrical prose graces a deftly crafted narrative.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

“A Southern song of love and loss rendered in language both gossamer and precise, Low Country is what happens when one family's dreams, gossip and ghost stories meet the only writer capable of weaving them together. Harrowing, beautiful and bold, the music of this memoir lingers long beyond the last page.” —Allie Rowbottom, author of JELL-O Girls

“The daughter of a country music star explores her roots and even the topography of her native land in this coming-of-age story of a past she's not always proud of.” —Zibby Owens, Good Morning America

“With the prose of a poet, Jones paints a vivid picture of an unorthodox life in an unconventional place.”—-Suzanne Van Atten, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, A Most Anticipated Southern Book of the Year

“Low Country is essential reading for anyone who has ever felt in-between or grappled with multiple truths about their homeland. J. Nicole Jones loves and indicts the rich and unique South Carolina culture that made her, offering a portrait of an American region that produces a double bind familiar to many: impossible to stay, impossible to leave.” —Emma Copley Eisenberg, author of The Third Rainbow Girl

“Low Country is an enthralling book, with sentences so stunning they should be memorized. Mocked by prep-school kids for talking 'like a hick' and then chided by her nana for talking 'like a Yankee, ' J. Nicole Jones explores her Southern roots, her attempts to leave them, and her return. Her writing about betrayals and love (there is so much love)--bound with stories of ghostly land and seascapes--is brilliant. Having read this book, I know that if she wrote a book about lint, I'd read it. I'd read anything by Jones.” —Jeannie Vanasco, author of Things We Didn’t Talk About When I Was a Girl

“Jones' attention to language is what makes this memoir a stunning read . . . At times amusing and other times heartbreaking, her care with language shines through in every page . . . Jones provides a brilliant look into the cracks of a family, channeling the folktales and sayings from her ancestors, and bringing them to the page.”—Anita Gill, Chicago Review of Books

“Low Country transported me into a corner of the South, the gleaming shores of the Carolinas, that I know well. But every sentence Jones spun made a familiar place new again. This is a beautiful seance that brings family ghosts back to life and tells not just the story of a country music-singing, Myrtle Beach-famous lineage but of an entire region. A big-hearted book. I didn't want it to end.” —Genevieve Hudson, author of Boys of Alabama

“Tinged with folklore and history . . . Jones' style feels steeped in storytelling and oral tradition . . . Poetic and intimate.” —Booklist

“Lyrical . . . Jones crafts a gothic setting for a literary memoir, while maintaining an invitingly informal narrative voice . . . A haunting memoir with poetic prose that will appeal to a large audience, owing to its interesting subject and skillful writing.” —Library Journal

“J. Nicole Jones' devastating memoir examines the realities of living in a picture-perfect, privileged family where nothing is as it seems to the public eye.” —K.W. Colyard, Bustle